Andreas F. Geissbuehler wrote:
The venerable IBM 2321 A.K.A "the strip picker", the one responsible for
the mbb in "mbbcchhr" -- did CP/67 or VM ever support the 2321 ?
re:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007e.html#51 FBA rant
addenda and more topic drift.
the reason given for periodically roping me into playing disk engineer was that
so many senior engineers had departed (lots in the departure to memorex and then
various others including later departures to storage tek). they needed somebody
that understood i/o architecture at a high level ... which had been the
responsibility
of the senior engineers that had left. i got pulled into it because of having to
get into the guts of i/o architecture as part of being able to make the
virtualization
work correctly ... and then i got pulled into other areas. lots of past posts
mentioning getting to play in disk engineering and product test labs
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#disk
recent post in this thread mentioning getting to play disk engineer
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007e.html#40 FBA rant
I did later run into one of the disk engineers that had been part of the group
that
had departed for memorex and claimed to have done a lot of the work on 2321. He
and some others at memorex had left and founded their own company that did
hardware
database engine. They had picked up a CTO out of Berkeley. When the CTO left
their
company for Teradata (and then later founded his own rdbms company), they came
around san jose plant site looking to backfill the CTO position (primarily from
people
working on system/r) . Similar to the stories told about Shugart recruiting around
san jose plant site (after he had left) ... but on much smaller scale (and they did
manage to catch somebody to backfill the CTO position). lots of past posts
mentioning
system/r
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#systemr
and other discussions around that era from the '95 SQL reunion:
http://www.mcjones.org/System_R/SQL_Reunion_95/sqlr95-Teradata.html
and recent post in original thread (from which this thread spawned)
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007e.html#41 IBM S/360 series operating systems
history
misc. past posts mentioning shugart, floppy disks, departing for memorex, etc
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000.html#9 Computer of the century
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002.html#17 index searching
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002l.html#50 IBM 2311 disk drive actuator and head
assembly
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004.html#5 The BASIC Variations
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004j.html#36 A quote from Crypto-Gram
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004l.html#14 Xah Lee's Unixism
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004p.html#0 Relational vs network vs hierarchic
databases
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004q.html#64 Will multicore CPUs have identical
cores?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005b.html#1 Foreign key in Oracle Sql
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005c.html#9 The mid-seventies SHARE survey
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005h.html#37 Software for IBM 360/30
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006n.html#30 CRAM, DataCell, and 3850
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006v.html#17 Ranking of non-IBM mainframe builders?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006x.html#27 The Future of CPUs: What's After
Multi-Core?
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